Curtain-knob.



No. 75,380. Patented Dac. 9. \902.

H. HIGGIN.

GUBTMN KNUB.

(Appliution led Oct. 6, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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'UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

HENRY HIGGIN, OF NEWPORT, KENTUCKY, ASSIGNOR TO THE HIGGIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY.

CURTAIN-KNOB.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 715,380, dated December 9, 1902.

Application filed October 6, 1900. Serial No. 32,315. (No model.) l

To' @ZZ when?, it may con/cern.:

Be it known that I, HENRY HIGGIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Newport, in the county of Campbell and State of Kentucky, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ourtain-Knobs,of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a curtain-knol) for carriages which is light and durable and which may be manufactured by -machinery, thus greatly reducing the cost.

My invention consists of the parte, combinations, and arrangements of parts and the method of producing them, hereinafter de# seribed and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure l is a side view of a knob embodying my invention in position; Fig. 2, a section of Fig. l; Fig. 3, the blank from which the knob is formed; Figs. 4, 5, 6, and 7, sections of the knob in the successive steps of manufacture.

In constructing the knob a circular blank A, Fig. 3, is stamped into cup shape, as indicated in Figs. 4 and 5, then the open end compressed to form a narrow neck, as indicated in Figs. band 7, and the hole @punched or drilled in the bottom to permit the passage of fastening means. In securing the knob in position a rivet B, Witha head b large enough to serve as the head of the knob, is used. The walls a 0i' shellA are slightly curved inward, so that the tension of fastening tends to spread the shell at its base, which tendency is resisted by the annular flan ge 0.2, thus forming a very strong combination adapted to per- `mit the rivet B to be secured very tightly 

